St. Louis scored five in the first on seven hits against Brett Myers and cruised to an 8-0 victory, temporarily pulling ahead of the Braves, who were in extra innings trying to force a one-game playoff in St. Louis Thursday.
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After 162 games, the 2011 Astros have turned in the worst record ever by a Houston baseball team: 56-106. There are so many other low points, there isn’t enough room even in cyber space to record it all.
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Wandy Rodriguez nearly did something extremely difficult. For a brief interlude Monday, he had visions of fashioning a winning record pitching for the worst team in Astros history. Rodriguez left his final start of the season with a 4-2 lead and had to settle for a no-decision, leaving his final ledger at 11-11.
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The Astros, with no apparent malice aforethought, played the role of spoiler for their fan base the entire baseball season. The Astros, with all the malice aforethought they can muster, have one last chance to spoil almost an entire season’s work by the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Major League Baseball tidbits and recommended reading: The collapse of the Red Sox is nearly complete. The Red Sox had a nine-game lead in the American League wild-card race on Sept. 3, and they have given it all away. (Peter Abraham, Boston Globe.) For the second time in six days, Spring’s Josh Beckett couldn’t handle […]
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With his highly anticipated rookie season having been declared by his manager “in a perfect world” finished, Jordan Lyles was sitting in the clubhouse reading a book on pitching before Monday’s game. He is a student now.
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The Cardinals came to Houston one game back of the wild card lead and needed only a win to tie the Braves by the end of the night, but the Astros denied them with a 5-4 victory, launched by a Brian Bogusevic double and a pair of well-placed bunts in the 10th inning.
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Major League Baseball tidbits and recommended reading: Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury had one of those MVP moments on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium. A three-run home run in the 14th inning off Scott Proctor righted the reeling Red Sox for a 7-4 victory against the Yankees. The victory gave the Red Sox a double-header split […]
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The Colorado Rockies pounded starter Lucas Harrell and a procession of relievers into submission, giving the worst team in the major leagues its most thorough beating of the season, 19-3. A crowd of 21,621 can be grateful the Astros didn’t serve drinks from out of punch bowls, because there’s no telling what might have floated to the top.
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Manager Brad Mills wasn’t there to gauge the immediate player reaction to his lineup of choice for Saturday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies. Mills had bench coach Al Pedrique spread the word of the changes afoot after the Astros scored 20 runs in the first two games of the series. First baseman Carlos Lee, […]
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